Sips and Sonnets Demo
A downloadable game for Windows and macOS
Description
Run a tea shop in the British countryside and enkindle your love for poetry in this heartfelt visual novel. Play as Ms Meadows, retired journalist and tea enthusiast, as she prepares for her best friend’s long-awaited visit. Listen to customers’ stories, brew tea, and craft wholehearted poems.
Features
- Be a nice old lady. The "nice" part is not optional.
- Make a variety of teas. Learn more about each kind of tea as you play!
- Chat up customers from all walks of life.
- Draw inspiration from your daily interactions with your clientele to write your latest poem!
- Your dialogue choices matter! Choose wisely and see all multiple endings!
This demo contains day the first chapter of the game (without voice acting).
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https://store.steampowered.com/app/3176190/Sips_and_Sonnets/
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Love it! The new Ms Meadows artwork sprites look so much better (i got to play the previous build as ergo). Loved the intro cinematic (although i initially thought that I accidentally ticked the "auto proceed" function because the text kept proceeding by itself, but I then realized that it was specifically done for the cutscene alone).
The game is very charming, love the music already, excited for the full release, afraid that its gonna play on my heartstrings. Seems bug free and ready for release. Are you planning to do voice acting here too? (seems like a big undertaking for such a text heavy game, or is it just for the exclamations?)
My only few notes :
- As soon as you start the game (and anywhere during as well) if you scroll mouse wheel UP it instantly flips through the previous slides and gets you back to the very beginning of the game/section. Very easy to accidentally do it and it resets all the progress, I did it accidentally after the intro cinematic and it returned me to the very beginning of the game. Not sure if this functionality is that necessary considering that we have "History" tab (especially when it can be so easily triggered by accident).
- The text in the Tea Book (particularly the first 2 pages) goes offscreen, there is too much text for it to scale properly (I use about 70% text scale, but it seems to start overflowing from 45% and up). So the first pages text needs to be shortened. All other scenes fit the scaled text pretty nicely.
- Would be nice if the highlight glow on the expose newspaper frame stopped glowing after we read its content.
Hello hello! Thank you for playing our demo again and thank you for writing these lovely comments! We're glad the new version of Ms. Meadows is better! Regarding pressing up to rollback, yes... I totally forgot to disable it xD Thanks for the reminder! For the text size, we need to find a solution. And the glow highlights, yes I agree with you. We should do it. Thank you again and we can't wait for you to experience the full version! And yes, we plan to have voice acting so stay tuned for that :)